On Christmas morning, December 25, 2022, 30-year-old Germil Deantonious Rhone was shot during an altercation inside the Waffle House on Farmerville Highway in Ruston, Louisiana. Both Rhone and the person accused of shooting him left the restaurant before police arrived. Shortly afterward a single-vehicle rollover on East Georgia Avenue involved Rhone as the driver; he was taken to Northern Louisiana Medical Center and pronounced dead from the gunshot wound. A passenger in his vehicle was not injured.

The shooting left behind several young children and a grieving family. The Ruston Police Department identified 28-year-old Gerkerrio Demon Womack as a suspect. Authorities located and arrested Womack at a West Barnett Springs Avenue residence on January 4, 2023; he was booked on a second-degree murder warrant and also on charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and distribution of a Schedule I controlled substance arising from a separate narcotics investigation. Bail was set at $1,150,000.

Is there anyone who was at the Waffle House that night or who knew Germil who can help clarify what happened?